Top model Maty Fall [IG] celebrates the appreciation of life in her ‘Aphrodite Rising’ inspired cover fashion story for the January February 2026 issue of Vogue Germany [IG].

Photographer Felicity Ingram [IG] captures Maty wearing Dior, Dries Van Noten, Etro, Givenchy, Gucci, Hermes, Loewe, Louis Vuitton, Prada, Saint Laurent and more, styled by Nathan Klein./ Hair by Kota Suizu; makeup by Niamh Quinn

Maty is an Italian citizen today and AOC writes about the origins of Italian humanism weekly.

Less well known is the reality that Senegal’s first president Léopold Sédar Senghor was an internationally renowned poet who made his nation a major cultural hub and intellectual center in Africa during the 1960s and 1970s.

As always on AOC, a simple fact — in this case Maty Fall’s ancestral pedigree, which I’ve noted previously — took Anne on a new learning journey.

All I asked GAI [Google AI] to do was to confirm my memory and understanding of Dakar as one of the most intellectual and artistic cities worldwide, in Africa’s post-colonial landscape.

With all my research, reading and deeply-lived, human-centered, global experiences, Négritude was not on my library card. AOC will pick up the story in-depth in New Humanism, with a post link here.